demo

/demoh/ [short for demonstration ] 1. v. To demonstrate a product or
prototype. A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than any
number of test runs, especially when important people are watching. 2. n.
The act of demoing. I've gotta give a demo of the drool-proof interface; how
does it work again? 3. n. Esp. as demo version , can refer either to an
early, barely-functional version of a program which can be used for
demonstration purposes as long as the operator uses exactly the right
commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented
portions, or to a special version of a program (frequently with some
features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to the user for
enticement purposes. 4. [ demoscene ] A sequence of demoeffect s (usually)
combined with self-composed music and hand-drawn ( pixelated ) graphics.
These days (1997) usually built to attend a compo. Often called eurodemos
outside Europe, as most of the demoscene activity seems to have gathered in
northern Europe and especially Scandinavia. See also intro , dentro.